Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage against them. Absence of formal insurance contributes to poverty traps, as investment decisions are conflicted with risk management ones: risk-averse farmers tend to underinvest and produce lower yielding yet safer crops. In the past few years, weather index insurance has gained increasing attention as an effective tool to provide small-scale...
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2016/02/16
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政策研究报告
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WPS7565
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2016/02/16
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Disclosed
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Drought and retribution : evidence from a large-scale rainfall-indexed insurance program in Mexico
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municipality level